ABSTRACT
Migrant protests have contributed to shaping new transnational alliances between migrants and pro-migrants and have challenged the nationalist approach to migration grounded in border control and assimilation. However, this chapter explores whether the transnationalization of social relations automatically implies a form of cosmopolitanism and argues that transnationalism from below, in order to become cosmopolitan, must entail forms of solidarity, meaning mutual constitutive relationships, common ground, and an inclusive universality. This chapter analyses three cases that reflect a contestation of the hegemonic universalism, based on borders, class, or exclusion: the Freedom Not Frontex-organized march from Strasbourg to Brussels in 2014, the Friendly Neighbors network in Denmark, and the Transnational Social Strike. In all three cases, the issues of borders, community, and class are generative of forms of cosmopolitanism, articulate transitional solidarities, and attempt to foster new commonalities.
